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How are green walnuts made?

Walnuts are ripe as soon as the Millennium is over. My hometown is a well-known production base of high-quality walnuts in China. Walnuts are not planted in every household in front of or behind the house. Walnuts are an important source of income for villagers, and playing walnuts is also an important scene in the year. The breeding season of walnuts is summer. In the midsummer heat, the small walnut fruit quickly absorbs water and nutrients, and gradually develops from a small olive into a walnut with full particles. Generally, before and after the summer heat and beginning of autumn solar terms, the nuts of walnuts are basically shaped. At this time, the nuts and fruit coats are still soft and not fully mature, but they are ready to eat. Half-cooked walnuts taste crisp, oily and tender, while fully-cooked walnuts taste two kinds of feelings. Although not as nutritious as ripe walnuts, some people haven't eaten them yet, so I tasted them first. The children are very enthusiastic about it. They are the first to know that the walnut tree opposite that family can be eaten. There is a special tool for eating half-baked walnuts, with a flat-headed machete at the front end. People call it "eyebrow knife", which is a must for children's key chains. There is a blacksmith's shop in the village, which specializes in making this kind of knife. It is well done and branded with patterns. After paving the green walnut, stick it in along the axis with an eyebrow knife, and then divide the walnut into two neat halves with an eyebrow knife. Then dig the nut out of the shell with an eyebrow knife, peel off the peel (the unripe peel is bitter), and you can eat it. Crispy and delicious, I can't help but drool when I hear others biting nuts and porcelain. There are many rainstorms in summer, and sometimes when a rainstorm comes down, green walnuts are knocked down everywhere. After the rainstorm stops, carry a small cage to check walnuts. Then sit at home and eat slowly, watching the corn stalks still stand like that after the heavy rain, and my heart is full of practical and warm joy. After the final sprint, the green walnut has completed all the development processes, which is especially obvious after the Millennium. The thick blue peel outside has gradually turned yellow, and it is separated around, leaving the fruit exposed. A gust of wind can blow off many walnuts. At this time, naughty squirrels will also compete with others for gun fruit. They are full of energy and effortlessly jump from branch to branch; They move quickly. They pass through the trunk of the cliff, just like on the flat ground. They picked up walnuts and got into the nest to prepare dry food for the winter. I expected the cat to catch it, but the cat couldn't help looking at its smoking figure. Hurry up, the prelude of the villagers playing walnuts has begun. Generally, the whole family will go out to play with walnuts and bring ladders, ropes, sacks and long poles. Ladders are used to climb walnut trees, and ropes are used to tie people to the trunk to control balance. Of course, skilled people don't need a pole, of course, they are used to beat walnuts. Playing walnuts requires both courage and wisdom. Dare to go up and dance pole dancing, knowing that those walnuts should be played when they are fun, but those long and difficult to play can't be played. The choice of gain and loss depends on the walnut player. When the telephone pole fell, I heard the sound of rushing, and walnuts fell like hail. People who check walnuts under the tree use cages to protect their heads and walk through the rainstorm of walnuts. Being accidentally hit is also a kind of excitement and joy. The adults are playing walnuts in the tree, and the children are busy pointing out that the walnuts there have not been played yet. In a short time, a layer has fallen on the ground. Look east, look west, here in the grass, there by the ditch, collect them together. Wow, that's a lot. If the harvest is good, a walnut tree can hit two sacks. After the walnuts are beaten, some walnuts are still covered with thick green skins, which requires removing the green skins. Generally, the green tangerine peel, when you hit it with a stick and lightly hit it a few times, will fade, splash blue juice, and reveal red walnut kernels. Breaking open the shell, the oily nut looks like an ear, and the edge of the nut is round, as if it were like a human brain. It tastes fragrant, oily and nutritious. Don't look at this little nut, there are many ways to eat it. You can eat it on the fire without breaking the shell. Put it by the fire. After baking, the oil of walnuts is secreted, which is very fragrant. It can also be used as seasoning to make steamed bread. Mashed nuts, mixed with salt, chopped green onion and cooked oil, coated on steamed bread and steamed. The aroma of nuts is all over the steamed bread, and the sesame oil tastes delicious. You can also make walnut nut candy by boiling walnut nuts and brown sugar in water and cooling to get walnut nut candy. Sweet to almost the back of the head. When I was a child, my mother used to make this praline during the Spring Festival. The children like it very much. I can't imagine how sweet it is now. The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and walnuts and nuts can also be used as moon cakes. In the Mid-Autumn Festival in my hometown, every family makes moon cakes. Fresh walnuts are suitable for filling moon cakes. Walnut is not only delicious, people love it, but also made into toys. The classical method is to manufacture a single rotor. Choose a fresh walnut nut with a burly appearance and full and thick inside, punch two small holes at symmetrical places on both sides, and then use a relatively strong string to pass through the four small holes from top to bottom in turn, and tie the rope head tightly, thus making a simple rotor. When playing, put the walnuts in the middle of the rope, hold both ends of the rope with both hands, and let the rope swing in one direction with the walnuts, so that the ropes can be twisted together to accumulate strength. At this time, when the rope ends at both ends are suddenly pulled, the walnut can rotate at a high speed, and the more it is pulled, the more it turns, and only the buzzing sound is heard, so the rotor also has a name called "female bee", which can sting leaves or books. When children do it, they can compete who can do the walnut rotor best. This is one of the most popular games in autumn. Walnut has brought great joy to the villagers, and it has also been integrated into people's culture. There is a famous two-part allegorical saying in my hometown, "Walnuts in the mountains-eating by beating", which is used to describe the person who eats hard but not soft, and it is the same as "toasting without eating". It is also said that a person's brain is like a walnut, which is used to describe that person's brain is stupid and as hard as a walnut. Although they are all derogatory, it just shows that walnuts, like those dialects in their hometown, have long been closely related to people. Seeing that the Millennium will be in a few days, and the walnuts will be ripe, I think of the walnuts in my hometown and miss the locals in my hometown.